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Biometrics deployments and legal action set up more of each

Biometrics for airport use now and in the future made up two of the top stories on Biometric Update this…

 

‘Digital wallets to be as essential as browsers’: OpenWallet Foundation calls for builders

“What we’re trying to accomplish is not standards, trust frameworks and governance, but we are going to build code –…

 

Breaking biometric siloes via dialogue: the Thoughtful Biometrics Workshop

The existing siloes of biometric technology providers, academia, civil society and policy makers will be shaken and mixed to get…

 

Kenyan government seeks to differentiate new national digital ID from Huduma Namba

Digital identity will be provided to all Kenyans by February, 2024 so they can more easily access government services, the…

 

iProov and OIX leaders respond to Blair Institute report

A public call by the Tony Blair Institute for the UK government to issue decentralized digital IDs to all who…

 

Biometric recognition tests can’t be used for all use cases

Trust being essential to the algorithmic identification industry, it bears noting that having tests for, say, performance is not enough…

 

Journalist uses AI voice to break into own bank account

In a recent experiment, Vice.com writer Joseph Cox used an AI-generated voice to bypass Lloyds Bank security and access his…

 

France explores age verification to access adult content

The Commission Nationale de l’informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) in France has developed prototype software to verify the ages of…

 

US military says it can put facial recognition into robot drones

Whenever a radically new technology comes along, someone worries that it will be weaponized and, at least in the United…

 

Scottish advisory group urges specific and binding rules for biometrics and AI in policing

The foundation for Scottish police to use biometrics and other advanced technologies is in place, but not yet complete. This…

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